Perinatal and Infant Mortality

HC Deb 21 January 1980 vol 977 cc16-7W

Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish the provisional perinatal and infant mortality rates for the first nine months of 1979.

Mr. Alison

Provisional figures for the first nine months of 1979 are given below:

	Rate per 1,000 births
Perinatal deaths	16
Infant mortality	15

The information will be published in the annual report of the Registrar General for Northern Ireland for 1979.